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Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog comment by genealogy with dana leeds - 5 days ago
Do you read Russian and could you verify this? As we all know, AIs hallucinate, so we need to be careful. 🙂
I tried the same document with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and the results were similar, though! I also found these notes it gave me interesting:
A few notes about the translation:
✔️The Russian has ...
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RootsTech Day 1 - Blog comment by easygenogram - 24 Oct 2024
It sounds like you had a fantastic experience at the conference, connecting with key figures in the genealogy community and learning about the latest tools and updates! If you're interested in taking your family history research to the next level, I highly recommend checking out Qwoach’s EasyGenogram Tool. ...
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The Place Record in GEDCOM - Blog comment by jandrea - 18 Aug 2024
Another complication is that I want Winnipeg to have map coordinates and also City Hall to have its own map coordinates, and also any other place in the city such as the graveyards to have their own map coordinates.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Mar 2024
Hi Dave,
Yes, you have outlined several of the challenges that AI will have interpreting handwriting.
These are all likely one-day solvable, for example with regards to your point on penmanship, an algorithm may have to be trained on the writings of individual people first before it can be generalized. ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by dolinyk70 - 3 Mar 2024
Typo from my last comment. Sentence should read:
"Reliance on only one or two university professors ... "
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by dolinyk70 - 1 Mar 2024
Greetings Louis.
In a pre-AI world of web-based, transcribed, census records, successful transcriptions were governed by what I believe were four main factors.
1. Census Enumeration Accuracy;
2. Census Enumerator's Penmanship;
3. Digitization Scan Quality; and
4. Transcriber's ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by paulbaltzer - 27 Feb 2024
Louis,
Thanks for the update and review of the latest Artificial Intelligence with handwriting. We are all hoping and amazed how fast this technology is improving.
Paul Baltzer
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog comment by linda - 25 Nov 2023
I don't share Louis' endogamy but I agree that the golden age of autosomal testing is over for me too. I started in 2011 and was able to test many people of my parents' generation (siblings, cousins, second cousins). My many new matches are all much younger and include their grandchildren and even a ...
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog comment by iowa toni - 25 Nov 2023
Yes. I agree. I've exhausted the matches with any sort of tree beyond 1 person which is like no tree at all. I have not continued my subscription anywhere because I am not finding anything useful. Few people know who their great grandparents were. Those who do have already been examined. After 15 or so years I ...
Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog comment by lkessler - 5 days ago